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Netgear CG4500BD

Anyone have one of the new Netgear gateway? I heard so many horrible things about the CG3000D I am wondering if this could be a replacement. Looks like D3 24/8 with VOIP, Wifi-N (possibly later AC) and MoCA. What I am interested is the firmware. How are the features?

»www.multichannel.com/technology/···y/143619

If I'm not mistaken it'll be deployed in a D3 8/4 configuration on our network, at least for the time being.

Any idea on price? Will this be Cox only or retail?

Netgear gateway modems aren't supposed to be available retail. On our end I think the final details such as cost are being worked out. This will be available as a high end home networking option for those customers needing a higher performance device as well as dual band wireless.

My guess is 250$ based on the rest of Netgear's product line and the competition. So much of performance comes down to the firmware though. Usually Netgear offers the base firmware to ISP and then charge extra for things you would think would be standard, like HTTPS for remote access. Will just wait and see I guess. Thanks.

::Edit:: I tried to look up the FCC ID for details, but looks like the FCC is...closed. ::blink:: Hmm, that's a first.

»www.fcc.gov/shutdown-page.html